Berning, Leslie Edwin
Navy Seaman 2nd class

Leslie Edwin Berning, age 19, from Saint Clair County Belleville, Illinois .

Parents: Edward Berning

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Wednesday, October 25, 1944
Death details: Killed in the sinking of the USS Gambier Bay during the Battle of Leyte.
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Manila American

Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Belleville Daily Advocate (1944)